Adaptation
by Elaine May

Name: Adaptation
Brand: Elaine May
SKU: 9780822200093
Rating: 3.32 (23 reviews)

Adaptation Book Cover — Adaptation Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

American

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about the play. While some find it witty and interesting, others feel disappointed and fail to connect with its humor or themes.

Witty and clever writingInteresting staging ideasUnique concept of life as a gameshowDisappointing for some viewersNot funny to all

Synopsis

This is a contest, played like Parcheesi, in which the contestant advances or is sent back through the seven ages of man.

The Author has written a parody of life with such incisiveness that it becomes like Swift in its barbs.

The play creates a picture of man from birth until death, with all its madness, with all its familiarity and with all its nonsense.

What's more, a quartet consisting of the games master, the male players and the female players assist the incomparable contestant from "mewling infant" to "second childishness and mere oblivion."

Incident after incident makes you laugh and suddenly makes you stop and think that maybe you're laughing at yourself.-- from publisher's website.